Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.
Cellular
–Indonesia: Alcatel-Lucent said it won a multimillion-Euro GSM/GPRS network expansion contract with PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk covering the provincial capital and major cities on the island of Sumatra.
Miscellaneous
–United States: Motorola Inc. deployed its Motomesh solution for citywide wireless access in Macon, Ga. Also in the United States, LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent focused on serving the U.S. government, said it won two contracts totaling $6.9 million with the U.S. Department of the Army to support network upgrades at facilities that are part of the Fort Hawaii Enclave. Finally, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and a division of the U.S. Army have announced they will begin collaboration on an evaluation of WiBRO mobile broadband technology (the South Korean version of WiMAX, also known as 802.16e) over the next few months at an experimentation facility in Fort Dix, N.J.